What both Arrival and Mass Effect say about the importance of humans and working together

How Arrival and its aliens differ from most other fiction

The importance of language

Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis

Time travel

Wasn’t this less convoluted, and therefore WAY BETTER, than Interstellar? @alatinolawyer

Is the ending of Arrival good? @xhugglesx

The aliens come with companions and convey language jointly. What lessons does this movie give about our beliefs on efficiency and teaching if they don’t just show a video or learn our languages to communicate? @alatinolawyer

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